Compact crossword - The Scotsman 11/04/2012
ACROSS
7 Merriment (4)
9 Obstacle (5)
10 Burrowing marine invertebrate (7)
12 Pen’s contents (3)
13 Do you speak (word from French) (9)
16 Small bird (5-4)
17 Palindrome meaning vigour (3)
19 Loch in the Trossachs (7)
21 Revel (anag) (5)
23 Of the pouring forth of wine (8)
24 Throw into the air (4)
DOWN
1 League (8)
2 Seashore (5)
3 City technology college (1,1,1)
4 Failed to pay a debt (9)
5 Vertical (7)
6 Quartet (4)
11 Type of opening in a wall (3-6)
14 Of fried eggs, cooked on both sides (8)
15 Beg (7)
18 Air attack (5)
20 Tel _____, city in Israel (4)
22 Vessel holding host after consecration (3)
Tuesday’s solution
Across: 1 Approaches, 8 Lissome, 9 Allot, 10 None, 11 Boob, 12 Tun, 14 Escape, 15 Armada, 18 Tab, 20 Cram, 21 Amid, 23 Nadir, 24 Loosens, 25 Dermatitis. Down: 1 Arsenic, 2 Prod, 3 Ocelot, 4 Clambers, 5 Eclat, 6 Clandestine, 7 Standardise, 13 Spectrum, 16 Aimless, 17 Mallet, 19 Budge, 22 Host.